Taylor Swift - Folklore

i mean not to knock the adventure you've created josh, it looks like a fun listen!

yeah there's nothing wrong with the sequence at all and i think her sequencing has usually been kinda dubious at best.

ha no big! we're all just having fun here

guess it's just indicative of how I listen to music

"the 1" last????

You should hear my "Wish" resequence that starts with "End" and ends with "Open." Totally changes your perspective, makes you think! No wonder Robert Smith is struggling with the remaster.

(I can totally imagine resequencing "Folklore." Tbh, I doubt there are many 70 minute, 17-song albums that couldn't be successfully shuffled.)

I should try a resequence, like josh's, because my attention runs out of steam by the last three songs, which I'll probably love should I be more receptive to listening to them carefully

Whoever mentioned Scrawl in this thread, thanks! I don’t hear this album at all but I discovered a band I’d never heard of and immediately like

awesome, Scrawl are great

travel on rider is dope

bonus track "the lakes" is now available to hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOHcAc3r2kw

not bad but the album is definitely better without it

I woke up with "Mirrorball" and "The 1" in my head, a lovely way to wake up.

"the lakes" is fine but a song that references twitter would strike a false note on the album

No song that alludes to Wordsworth and Coleridge can't be a bad song.

uh lol can be a bad song

i want auroras and sad prose
i want to watch wisteria grow
right over my bare feet
because i haven't moved in years

actually when i heard "the lakes" last month i immediately thought of it as a decoder for the rest of folklore, it sets the intentions

The album's now split into EP-size chunks ("the escapism chapter," "the sleepless nights chapter")?

This is definitely the 2020 album on top of 'recently' in spotify that I just gravitate towards and end up listening to even when I've entered with different intentions

It goes well with anything — brunch, cocktails, late nights. The perfect 2020 lifestyle accessory album, which I mean in a good way.

No song that alludes to Wordsworth and Coleridge can't be a bad song.

uh lol can be a bad song

Agree that Genesis's "The Colony of Slippermen", Rush's "Xanadu", and Iron Maiden's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" are classic.

otm

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I Designed A Taylor Swift Theme Park w/60+ Attractions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pno5g88MONo

(That was a C&P error, I didn't design this, lol)

taking stannery to a whole new level..... I admire his Virgo mastermind energy

this is the best movie of 2020 — his love of her music is so sweet and sincere

For anyone who care, here is how those aforementioned "EPs" break down:

folklore: the saltbox house chapter
last great american dynasty
august
the 1
seven
peace
betty

folklore: the sleepless nights chapter
exile (feat. Bon Iver)
hoax
my tears ricochet
illicit affairs
this is me trying
mad woman

folklore: the escapism chapter
the lakes
seven
epiphany
cardigan
mirrorball
exile (feat. Bon Iver)

It's weird that "Exile" appears twice? Or maybe not weird, I'm sure there's some logic behind it.

Probably wanted to make it an even 6 for each EP, but only had 17 songs to work with. Also throwing some more streaming change at her buddy Mr. Iver.

Good song to repeat, IMO

("Seven" is also repeated, fwiw)

Listening thru these EPs, I don't feel like the track order is an "improvement" in how they present the songs - I would stick with the album running order.

I missed something ... is this "three EPs" thing something Taylor has put forth? or is it just a fan theory kind of thing?

Seems to be official - they're on the streaming services (as her "latest releases"). I haven't seen them discussed anywhere, but I also haven't looked.

Taylor herself tweeted out these tracklists, so they are official in that sense. Cynically, just a way to keep goosing the streaming numbers now that the album has been out for awhile.

I like the idea of an artist experimenting with alternate presentations of a big batch of songs (the way we in these ILM threads tend to fiddle with the selection / running order of Taylor Swift tracks, for whatever reason).

Not sure these particular re-arrangements really illuminate anything, though...

(But I'm also not focused on the interconnected narratives that supposedly connect some of these songs.)

weird that invisible string doesn't appear on any of those "EP" reworkings. probably my fav song on the record at this point!

Huh, I didn't even notice that was missing. Looks like "seven" is also used twice.

it’s also a way to get “the lakes” on streaming

it's stupid how good this album is

^^^^

FYI, another EP (this one has “Invisible String”):

folklore: the yeah I showed up at your party chapter
betty (Live from the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards)
the 1
mirrorball
the last great american dynasty
invisible string
cardigan

the live version of “Betty” substitutes “would you tell me to go straight to hell” for “would you tell me I was chickenshit”

I don’t see the rhyme or reason in the overlapping song selections in these “chapters.”

xp sorry - guess the line on the album is “would you tell me to go fuck myself” (don’t know where I got the “chickenshit” thing, lol)

I don’t see the rhyme or reason in the overlapping song selections in these “chapters.”

I say this as a fan of Swift, this album and these chapters - I think it’s as simple as goosing her streaming numbers is all.

I’ve seen at least one other instance of this: Kaash Paige just released an EP that contains four tracks off her recent album (and nothing new).

It's not much different than her releasing special-edition versions at Target or whatever.